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unemployed

/ʌnɛmˈplɔɪd/

adjective

being without a job; jobless

  • “The number of unemployed people will rise by degrees.”Tatoeba
  • “When I was unemployed, I was receiving unemployment benefits.”Tatoeba

Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.

Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR); IPA generated with eSpeak NG (GPL-3.0 (software))

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